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Toyota halts shipments as Japan auto safety scandal widens
4 Jun 2024Japan's government has ordered Toyota, Mazda and Yamaha to suspend some shipments amid questions over testing.
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Biden expected to unveil order on asylum shutdown
4 Jun 2024The actions are Biden's most aggressive unilateral move yet to control the numbers at the border.
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Why ICJ ruling is unlikely to stop Israel's Rafah invasion
25 May 2024Analysis - The order is binding but the court does not have enforcement powers, write's ABC's Eric Tlozec.
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Israel confirms deaths of four more hostages in Gaza
4 Jun 2024Israel's military says UK-Israeli Nadav Popplewell and three others "were killed while together in the area of Khan Younis during our operation there".
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Trial of US President’s son Hunter Biden begins
4 Jun 2024Prospective jurors in Hunter Biden's firearms case were questioned on gun rights, addiction, politics
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Nigel Farage makes an about-face and says he will run in the UK election
4 Jun 2024The pro-Brexit campaigner will make his eighth attempt to win a seat in the House of Commons.
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Donald Trump joins TikTok despite previously wanting ban
4 Jun 2024The presidential candidate and convicted felon amassed 3.6 million followers since opening an account on Saturday.
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Imran Khan acquitted in state secrets case
4 Jun 2024In the so-called "cipher case", the prosecution argued that the former Pakistan prime minister had leaked a classified cable sent to Pakistan's ambassador in Washington.
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More than 1 million people forced out of Rafah - UN agency
Since early May, Israel's military has been carrying out what it says is a limited operation in the Gazan city to root out Hamas fighters.
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Journalist who upset 'Jewish lobbyists' allowed to pursue unlawful termination case
3 Jun 2024Antoinette Lattouf was sacked by the ABC when she was taken off-air part way through a radio presenting stint, the Fair Work Commission has found.
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Remains of missing Australian woman found 23 years later
3 Jun 2024Kellie Ann Carmichael disappeared in April 2001, and now her remains have been found in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney.
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Sheinbaum to be Mexico's first woman leader, exit polls say
3 Jun 2024Frontrunner Claudia Sheinbaum is set to become Mexico's first woman president in an historic win, exit polls suggest.
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South African election: The complicated coalition talks, explained
3 Jun 2024With no one holding a majority, South Africa's party leaders are embarking on coalition talks to form a government.
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Zelensky accuses Russia and China of undermining peace summit
3 Jun 2024The Ukrainian President says "elements of Russia's weaponry" come from China, despite Beijing saying it wasn't taking a side.
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Paris aiming for the most sustainable Olympics yet
Organisers say they're thinking about the Games' future, not just the planet's.
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Trade Minister to sign three Indo-Pacific agreements with 14 countries
3 Jun 2024The agreements focus on anti-corruption efforts and labour standards across the region, along with increased international tax cooperation.
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Biden's Gaza plan 'not good' but Israel accepts it - Netanyahu aide
Joe Biden has aired what he described as a three-phase plan submitted by the Netanyahu government to end the war.
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Rupert Murdoch ties the knot for the 5th time
3 Jun 2024The couple wed in a ceremony at his vineyard estate in Bel Air, California
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Donald Trump says he'll accept jail time or home detention if sentenced
3 Jun 2024But the Republican presidential candidate, and convicted felon, says Americans could reach "breaking point" if he is jailed.
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South Africa's ANC says it won't ditch Ramaphosa to form coalition
3 Jun 2024Political parties have two weeks to work out a deal before a new parliament sits to choose a president.
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Mexicans vote in historic election expected to see first woman president
3 Jun 2024The ruling party candidate, Claudia Sheinbaum, is expected to sail to victory.
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Earliest-known galaxy spotted by Webb telescope
3 Jun 2024NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted the earliest-known galaxy, one that is surprisingly bright and big considering it formed during the universe's infancy.
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South Korea vows 'unendurable' response to North's trash balloons
3 Jun 2024The South says its retaliation could include blaring propaganda from loudspeakers at its northern neighbour.
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Netanyahu faces growing pressure over Gaza ceasefire
2 Jun 2024Israelis are urging the PM to embrace the deal, but far-right allies are threatening to collapse his government if he does.
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